Maureen Daly (March 15 1921 - September 24 2006), was an American author best known for her novel Seventeenth Summer (1942), one of the first to target a teenage audience. She was born in County Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland in 1921 and grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Daly won an O. Henry Award for her short story, Sixteen, while still at high school. Seventeenth Summer was written before she turned twenty. By 1982, it had gone into 45 hardback editions. Daly also worked as a journalist on papers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, Ladies' Home Journal and The Saturday Evening Post. She later wrote a food column in the Palm Springs Desert Sun. She was awarded the American Freedom Foundation Medal in 1952.
Other works
- Sixteen and Other Stories" in 1961, "The Ginger Horse (1964)
- Small War of Sergeant Donkey (1966)
- Mention My Name in Mombasa (co-written with her husband, Bill McGivern)
References
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.
